Karel++ A Gentle Introduction to the Art of

This creative approach to learning C++ programming introduces readers to Karel the Robot and then shows them how to design programs that instruct Karel to perform complex tasks. Karel's world is essentially a practice field on which readers learn valuable lessons about creating and debugging program. The programs instruct the robot to move and manipulate its environment using object orientation.

Joseph Bergin is a retired professor of Computer Science. He championed the teaching of modern programming paradigms, especially Object-Oriented programming, throughout his long career. Mark Stehlik is the author of Karel++: A Gentle Introduction to the Art of Object-Oriented Programming, published by Wiley.

Chapter 1 The Robot World

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1.1 The Robot World

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1.2 Robot Capabilities

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1.3 Tasks and Situations

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1.4 Problem Set

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Chapter 2 Primitive Instructions and Simple Programs

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2.1 Changing Position

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2.2 Turning in Place

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2.3 Finishing a Task

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2.4 Handling Beepers

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2.5 Robot Descriptions

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2.6 A Complete Program

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2.6.1 Executing a Program

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2.6.2 The Form of Robot Programs

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2.7 Error Shutoffs

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2.8 Programming Errors

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2.8.1 Bugs and Debugging

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2.9 Problem Set

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Chapter 3 Extending the Robot Programming Language

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3.1 Creating a More Natural Programming Language

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3.2 A Mechanism That Defines New Classes of Robots

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3.3 Defining the New Instructions

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3.4 The Meaning and Correctness of New Instructions

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3.5 Defining New Instructions in a Program

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3.6 Modifying Inherited Instructions

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3.7 An Ungrammatical Program

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3.8 Tools for Designing and Writing Robot Programs

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3.8.1 Stepwise Refinement--A Technique for Planning, Implementing, and Analyzing Robot Programs

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3.8.2 The Second Step--Planning harvestTwoRows and positionForNextHarvest

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3.8.3 The Third Step--Planning harvestOneRow and goToNextRow

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3.8.4 The Final Step--Verifying That the Complete Program Is Correct

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3.9 Advantages of Using New Instructions

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3.9.1 Avoiding Errors

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3.9.2 Future Modifications

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3.9.3 A Program Without New Instructions

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3.10 Writing Understandable Programs

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3.11 Robot Teams

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3.12 Object-Oriented Design

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3.13 Problem Set

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Chapter 4 Conditionally Executing Instructions

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4.1 The IF Instruction

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4.2 The Conditions That Robots Can Test

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4.2.1 Writing New Predicates

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4.3 Simple Examples of the IF Instruction

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4.3.1 The harvestOneRow Instruction

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4.3.2 The faceNorthIfFacingSouth Instruction

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4.3.3 The faceNorth Instruction

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4.3.4 Determining the Correctness of the IF Instruction

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4.4 The IF/ELSE Instruction

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4.5 Nested IF Instructions

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4.6 More Complex Tests

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4.7 When to Use an IF Instruction

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4.8 Transformations for Simplifying IF Instructions

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4.9 Problem Set

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Chapter 5 Instructions That Repeat

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5.1 The LOOP Instruction

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5.2 The WHILE Instruction

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5.2.1 Why WHILE Is Needed

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5.2.2 The Form of the WHILE Instruction

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5.2.3 Building a WHILE Loop--The Four-Step Process

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5.2.4 A More Interesting Problem

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5.3 Errors to Avoid with WHILE Loops

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5.3.1 The Fence Post Problem

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5.3.2 Infinite Execution

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5.3.3 When the Test of a WHILE is Checked

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5.4 Nested WHILE Loops

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5.4.1 A Good Example of Nesting

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5.4.2 A Bad Example of Nesting

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5.5 WHILE and IF Instructions

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5.6 Reasoning About Loops

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5.7 A Large Program Written by Stepwise Refinement

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5.8 When to Use a Repeating Instruction

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5.9 Problem Set

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Chapter 6 Advanced Techniques for Robots

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6.1 Introduction to Recursion

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6.2 More on Recursion

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6.3 Tail Recursion and Looping

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6.4 Going Formal

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6.5 Searching

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6.6 Doing Arithmetic

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6.7 Polymorphism--Why Write Many Programs When One Will Do?

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6.8 Conclusion

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6.9 Hierarchy of Known Classes

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6.10 Problem Set

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Appendix A Robot Programming Summary

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Appendix B Differences Between Karel++ and C++

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Appendix C Differences Between Karel++ and Java

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Karel++ A Gentle Introduction to the Art of Object-Oriented Programming

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